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Amazon Aurora

Overview

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

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Recent Reviews

Amazon RDS Aurora.

9 out of 10
September 25, 2023
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Amazon aurora was used for audit purposes. The main purpose was to audit IoT device activities performed by end user. All the information …
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AWS Aurora Review

8 out of 10
September 22, 2023
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In our organization, we leverage Amazon Aurora as a critical component of our database infrastructure. Aurora is a high-performance, fully …
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Cost effective

9 out of 10
September 19, 2023
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  • Primarily use it in our core payments platform given that we need strong ACID properties but we’re looking to transition to dynamodb soon …
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Popular Features

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  • Automated backups (25)
    9.4
    94%
  • Database scalability (26)
    9.4
    94%
  • Automatic software patching (26)
    8.9
    89%
  • Monitoring and metrics (25)
    8.7
    87%

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Employee in Information Technology
Industrial Automation Company, 51-200 employees
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Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
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Features

Database-as-a-Service

Database as a Service (DBaaS) software, sometimes referred to as cloud database software, is the delivery of database services ocer the Internet as a service

9.1
Avg 8.7
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Service Offering Details

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, built to combine the performance and availability of enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The vendor states Amazon Aurora is up to 5X faster than MySQL databases and 3X faster than PostgreSQL databases, and that it provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost.

Amazon Aurora features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB per database instance. It delivers performance and availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across three Availability Zones (AZs).

The vendor invites readers to learn more details on how they designed Amazon Aurora, from AWS CTO, Werner Vogels.

Amazon Aurora Screenshots

Screenshot of A look inside the RDS console.

Amazon Aurora Videos

How to create a first database cluster on Amazon Aurora.
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GeographyNAMER, EMEA, APAC, LATAM
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL are common alternatives for Amazon Aurora.

Reviewers rate Database scalability and Automated backups highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Amazon Aurora are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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September 22, 2023

Great, intuitive and a must have with larger businesses

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
In my experience, Amazon Aurora is excellent in automated backups, security, encryption and somewhat in monitoring. Availability wise as Amazon Aurora automatically defines clusters and backups we don't have to manage it as much as we did traditional database system we use for some of our sites in Acquia. We even use Platform.sh for some of our sites but I think it pales in comparison with Amazon Aurora.
September 22, 2023

AWS Aurora Review

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
Aurora has a very high availability due to its multi-zone availability as well as its failover capabilities. Amazon replicates it's data in multiple regions leading to high availability and low data latency. On the other hand, other service providers might not have that high performance since they can't match the infrastructure as massive as that of AWS.
September 21, 2023

Amazon Aurora: Empowering Scalability and Performance for Modern Database Management.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
Aurora is great with with up-time. It can even replicate data over multiple 'availability zones.' Which is very helpful to us. The availability can vary quite a lot at competitor DBaaS providers, at least in my experience.
September 20, 2023

A powerful RDBMS

Ayush Dutta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ayush Dutta
Game Developer
Itch.io (Computer Games, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
This is a cost effective software for large data handlers who find difficulty in placing their data in a confidential manner, this provides almost everything which one needs for powerful data handling softwares , even though I find it lacking in somewhat interactiveness but yet this is worth effective and efficient for working and relating datas in several tuples.
September 20, 2023

Amazon Aurora Another AWS managed DB

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Guillermo Buritica
System Administrator
Servian (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
I really love the failover feature. Before Amazon Aurora this was a manual process and full of scripts. Now Amazon Aurora do it automatic.

The best part is the failback. Before Amazon Aurora this process requires a re-sync the DB
September 19, 2023

Best Serverless computing platform.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
Aurora provides better and higher availability and durability than other databases as a service provider, as it has the ability to create continuous backups and provide multiple copies of your data. It has a unique storage model, which makes it unique from other databases as a service provider.
September 19, 2023

Amazon Aurora - what an excellent solution for Database problems

Iván García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iván García
Consultant
Datum, S.A. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
Aurora allows you to use one or more Availability Zones (AZ), which you can look as datacenters, so if you deploy an Aurora cluster using two or more different AZs you can have a highly available database. In the cluster you will have a Writer instance and zero or more Reader instances, each Reader can be use to distribute the reader load besides being targets for a fail-over in case of an issue with the Writer node.
September 19, 2023

Migrating your databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce Storage Costs

Judy L. Berglund | TrustRadius Reviewer
Judy L. Berglund
Sr Systems Engineer
Dell EMC (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
Data replications is much faster, another compelling feature is that it is completely cloud native, so you get high availability when using the Amazon Aurora services. Amazon Aurora is also very persuasive it can store 6 backups every time we perform code changes within the platform using three easy and accessible methods. Another no less important feature is to fix corrupted data automatically the Amazon Aurora software has this built in and performs very well. It automatically scales up to 3 replicas, and can be configured to always have the right amount of space.
September 18, 2023

Amazing Amazon Aurora

Verified User
Employee in Customer Service
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
This database never crashes and is always available. It has minimal downtime to load data sets. It also has a fast failovers . Compared to other database as a service provider, it is quicker and more efficient. I find this to be a very reliable tool for our company with large sets of s data
August 21, 2023

Unveiling Amazon Aurora: Empowering High-Performance Data Management in the Cloud

Manthan Dhola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manthan Dhola
Solutions Architect
BIDAYA TECH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
  • Azure's managed database service offers high availability with automatic failover, as well as automated backups and geo-replication for data durability.
  • DigitalOcean's service provides automated backups and scaling options for availability. Data durability is maintained through redundant storage and regular snapshots.
  • IBM's database service offers automated backups and recovery options for data protection. It also supports replication for disaster recovery.
July 28, 2023

Amazon Aurora Just Works

Lalitha Devi Segu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lalitha Devi Segu
Advisor in Engineering
Dell Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
8
The breadth of the service offering for Amazon Aurora as well as its capabilities and features make it almost irresistible for PostgreSQL or MySQL-compatible workloads. From the ease at which I can set up a geo-replicated, highly-available Aurora Cluster to the deep Aurora metrics captured in CloudWatch or Performance Insights I can collect and review in the course of analyzing query performance, Aurora enables me to deliver a database platform for our most business-critical applications with which I can be assured will more than adequately meet the needs of our developers and our customers.
June 28, 2023

It is an amazing service!

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
8
It has high availability and durability compare to others. It’s fully-managed, ridiculously fast (up to 5x faster than MySQL), and can scale using shared-storage read replicas and multi availability zone deployments. This extra power (and convenience) comes with an added cost (~23% more per hour), but I’ve found it to be well worth it.
June 27, 2023

Exceeds expectation when using Amazon Aurora

Avantika Sikand | TrustRadius Reviewer
Avantika Sikand
Cloud Engineer
Oracle (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
It is one of the best solutions for cloud database service.lets you run Aurora without having to guess how many compute nodes you need. It automatically starts and stops nodes to match the needs of your applications and autoscaling is so easy.
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